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Smoking Gun: Images Show Russia Fired into Ukraine

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The U.S. State Department has released new satellite images that it says prove Moscow has been firing rockets across the Russia-Ukraine border.

The slides indicate Russia fired more than seven miles into eastern Ukraine, aiming directly at Kiev military forces.

"You've got a Russian government that has made the conscious decision to use its military force inside of another sovereign nation to achieve its objectives. First time, I think, probably since 1939," U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Martin Dempsey said.

According to a State Department official, Secretary of State John Kerry brushed aside Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's denial of his country's involvement, urging him to stop the flow of weapons into Ukraine.

But Republican leadership says the White House must still do more.  Sen. Lindsey Graham, S.C., wants to see additional sanctions on the Russian economy as well as support to equip and train the Ukrainian military.

"I think what we've learned from these changing times is that without American leadership the world disintegrates pretty rapidly," Graham told CNN's "State of the Union."

"I said last week, America is the glue that holds the free world together," he said. "When you see us missing or AWOL as President Obama's been, you see fracturing on multiple fronts. Russia is more aggressive, not less."
    
Ukrainian intelligence officials are also blaming Russia for the attack that took down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17.

"The security services of the Ukraine possess enough evidence of terrorists who were sent from the Russian Federation, from the territory of the Russian Federation. They are in charge for shooting down of the Malaysian airplane," Vitaly Nayda, Ukraine's director of informational security, said.

Meanwhile, there is a growing humanitarian crisis in some parts of eastern Ukraine, and at least one church in Kiev is responding.

St. Michael's monastery is packing 40,000 tons of food, clothes, and water to be shipped to Donbass.
    
A Ukrainian orthodox bishop says the aid will be delivered to Ukraine soldiers fighting in the region and civilians caught in the middle.
    
The shipment will be accompanied by priests who will help distribute the goods. 

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Efrem Graham is an award-winning journalist who came to CBN News from the ABC-owned and operated station in Toledo, Ohio. His most recent honor came as co-anchor of the newscast that earned the station’s morning news program its first Emmy Award. Efrem was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, but his formal television and journalism career was born across the Hudson River in New York City. He began as an NBC Page and quickly landed opportunities to work behind-the-scenes in local news, network news, entertainment, and the network’s Corporate Communications Department. His work earned him the NBC